Before you even start manufacturing, you find out your invention would be infringing on another patent. Your freedom-to-operate search revealed a competitor holds a patent
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Welcome, innovators, to a critical lesson that separates successful patent entrepreneurs from those whose patents collect dust. I’m Julie King, and today I’m revealing the
Fatal mistakes are often made when people unfamiliar with patent and trademark law leave that kind of intellectual property to people in their will or
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Not having provisions about control of your business’ intellectual property in your business operating documents is a grave mistake in intellectual property protection.
When
What’s the intellectual property horror lurking in the closet that gets overlooked the most? We’ve talked about how patents, trademarks, and trade dress are all
The most powerful strategy for protecting the design of a physical product is the dual protection of a design patent and trade dress.
Both design patents and trade dress have one unfortunate thing in common: functionality of the design can be a killer.
You cannot protect a
Here’s a Petrifying Patent Fact: For protecting a product, most people only think of utility patents, which protect how something works. But there’s also a
How do you protect how your product looks? Today we’re tackling the Two-Headed Monster of Design IP: design patents and trade dress trademarks. This is
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